improvements in breake-shoes,of which following is a specification.



of the body ot' the shoe at these poillts.tl1ese strains being talien up and borne by the transverse lug-reinforcing strip. Further. the toes 1T. projecting downward within the body of the shoe. reintorce the cast metal at these points. so that tht` cast metal of the body of the shoe is reintorctal throughout its entire length.

In the modified torm ol' brake shoe shown in Figs. -1-. 5 and t3 oll the drawing` the reinforcing bach L'() is somewhat reduced in width at itsl center and is out\\'ardly looped at this portion so as to t'orm the integral lug 19 through which extend the usual keywa openings 2l. rl`he reduction in width of the reinforcing back at the center provides sul'- icient space for the Jformation ot the upstanding cast lugs lo. tht` same cooperating with but projecting above the top of 'the looped lug 1f) ot' the reinforcing back. Firmly :nchored within the cast lugs 18 is the transverse lug reinforcing strip 22, the same projecting across the top of the iutegral looped lug 1S) of the reinforcing back and extending down through the cast lugs 18 so as to reinforce the same, and terminating in the toes Q3 which are embedded and anchored within the'cast metal ot' the body of the shoe. Tllus the upstanding cast. lugs are reinforced and prevented from becoming broken in handling. The looped lug ofthe, back is strengthened and prevented from hecoming torn away from the cast metal of the body of the shoe, and the central portion ot the shoe, which lies directly beneath the looped lug, is reinforced by the prese-nce ot' the toes of the Wrought or l-.fd steel lugreint'orcing strip 22.

What I claim is.:

l. brake shoe comprising a body, a reinforcmg back Wlth a looped lug embedded therein, and a luga'eintforcing strip embedded in the body metal ot the shoe and projecting across the top of the looped lug ot' the back.

2. brake ,shoe comprising a cast metal body. a reinforcing back embedded therein and provided with an outw'ardly looped integral lug, and a transverse lug-reinforcing strip with the ends thereot' embedded in the body metal of the shoe and the central portion projecting across the top otl the looped lug ot the back.

A brake shoe comprising a reinforcing back with an integral looped lug. a body portion castl to said bachr aud reinforced thereby. the body metal projecting upwardly at the sides of the looped lug. and a rein- Jforcing strip embedded therein and project,- ing across the top ot' the looped lug ot' the back.

krl. A brake shoe comprising a. reinforcing back reduced in width at its central portion and outwardly looped to t'orm an integral lug, a body Jformed ot metal cast about said reinforcing back with portions thereof projecting upwardly at the reduced portion of the reinforcing back and forming integral 'ast lugs adjacent the looped lug ot' the back, and a transverse lug-reinforcing strip embedded in the cast metal ot the lugs of the. body and projecting across the. top of the looped lng of the back.

Signed utNewr York. borough of Manhattan, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 2d day of July, A. D., 1919.

FITZ WILLIAM SARGENT.

Witnesses:

E. B. SIBBALD, WALLACE B. SUTnmtLANo. 

